CaseCigar2002
Papillion, NE, USA
Chrome-like cigar w/ wings, quiet, low flying in unusual flight pattern, with no identification markings.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-09
- Where
- Papillion, NE, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 41.154, -96.042 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-papillion-ne-2002-a0a889
In context
- Papillion, NE shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from Nebraska in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.